CJP is a specialized text reader to assist advanced learners of Japanese in reading classic Japanese texts. Specifically, it allows the user to click the portions of the text to provide break downs of the grammar, vocabulary, as well as audio to assist the user in understanding the sound of classical Japanese. I was invited to join the team to do consultant work for both the technical side and pedagogical side, as I am not a content expert (yet) on Classical Japanese.

(From the CJP website)

Learning the Japanese that people have used in other times gives us a fuller, deeper view of how it’s used now. If you’ve spent some time outside the Tokyo area, you know that there’s more than one kind of Japanese today. Similarly, Japanese varies across time. With this website, you can start exploring the earlier end of how people have communicated in Japanese. With classical Japanese, you gain access to earlier times, places and people in Japan. Since it’s taught today in high schools in Japan, learning some of the stories, characters, memes and poems of earlier times—in their original form. Finally, you’ll develop an appreciation of how words and other ways of expressing meaning in Japan have evolved over time. This can help reveal how an otherwise mysterious usage today means what it does. Or it can help us notice changes that are happening right now. Even if it has changed over time, like any living language, Japanese today includes much that speakers have been doing for a long time—from the sounds of words, to arranging those words in patterns, to positioning oneself and others socially, and related practices—in short, ways of getting on with the people in your life. In these pages, you can see for yourself.